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Thai oarsmen row a royal barge during the Royal Barge Procession on the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand. Golden barges shaped like swans and mythical sea creatures glided down the Chao Phraya river that winds through the Thai capital of Bangkok in a 700-year-old ceremony, with more than 2,000 rowers taking part. Sukree Sukplang/Reuters

The Great Hall of the People, the venue of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, is seen reflected in a window of a bus as a delegate leaves after a meeting in Beijing. Carlos Barria/Reuters

An Islamist Egyptian protester shouts holding a Koran during a protest of hundreds of Salafists gather for the enforcement of Islamic sharia law at Tahrir Square in Cairo. Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters

Ecologist Dmitry Shamovich plays with tamed wolf at his house in the remote village of Sosnovy Bor, northeast of MInsk, Belarus, Thursday. Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

Remembrance Day poppies lie on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War memorial in Ottawa, Canada. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press/AP

An Indian man sells fake flowers for the upcoming Diwali holiday at a local market in New Delhi, India. Kevin Frayer/AP

Canada's Paige Lawrence and Rudi Swiegers perform during the pairs short program at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Rostelecom Cup in Moscow. Grigory Dukor/Reuters

A wild elephant is seen behind electric wires at Udawalawe National Park in Udawalawe, Sri Lanka. Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters

Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai reads a card as she recuperates at the The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, in this undated photograph released to Reuters on November 8, 2012. Malala, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education, was flown from Pakistan to Britain for specialist treatment after the Oct. 9 attack. Courtesy of Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham/Reuters

Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis reflect at the gravesite of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, in the Queens borough of New York. The rabbis are among almost 4000 rabbis from around the world in New York for the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries, an annual event aimed at reviving Jewish awareness and practice. Jonathan Alpeyrie/Chabad.org/AP

Britain's bishop of Durham Justin Welby rolls his sleeves up as he takes questions from journalists during a news conference following the announcement he will become the next archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace in London. Matt Dunham/AP

French Junior Minister of Small Business, Innovation, and Digital Economy Fleur Pellerin visits the biotechnology laboratory at Cellectis, the French genome engineering specialist, in Paris. Eric Feferberg/Reuters

President Obama holds up a signature pen as he delivers a statement on the US 'fiscal cliff' in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Qiangba Puncog (l.) chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Padma Choling, Tibet government chief, attend a meeting held at the Great Hall of the People as part of the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing. Vincent Yu/AP

Cesar Diaz kisses his daughter, Ciana, as he waits to speak with a doctor from Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, in a temporary clinic set up in the laundry room of New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) housing in the Queens borough neighborhood of Edgemere, Thursday. Lucas Jackson/Reuters

A fish flops on the Lake Worth Pier, Florida, as fishermen return Friday morning. The pier reopened Friday, after being closed for two weeks from damaged caused by Hurricane Sandy. Lannis Waters/The Palm Beach Post/AP

Students from a high school in Osaka, Japan, peer through a small opening of the Berlin Wall at the memorial side Bernauer Strasse in Berlin. Markus Schreiber/AP

Novak Djokovic of Serbia arrives on court to face Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic during their ATP World Tour Finals singles tennis match at the O2 Arena in London. Sang Tan/AP

An Indian laborer bathes in at the morning at a local market in New Delhi. Kevin Frayer/AP

US Marine officer Major Jason Schewe, commander of Police Advisor Team Now Zad, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines Regiment meets with an Afghan police officer and tribal elders at Afghan police camp in Now Zad district in Helmand province, southwestern Afghanistan. Erik De Castro/Reuters

Britain's Camilla (r.), Duchess of Cornwall, smiles with members of the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police following a ceremony appointing her as their Colonel-in-Chief at Victoria Barracks in Sydney, Australia. Rick Rycroft/Reuters

An orthodox priest holds a cross during funeral service at Alexander Newskiy cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria. Valentina Petrova/AP

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill is seen during a visit to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally believed to be the burial site of Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem's Old City. Sebastian Scheiner/AP

An unidentified woman unsuccessfully tries to prevent workers from demolishing her home in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, South Africa. South African police have supervised the demolition of some 44 homes since last week, saying they were constructed on illegally sold land. AP

A tram passes a car parked in a paid street parking space in Moscow. Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters

Children play on the bank of the Yangon river in the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters

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Syrian state television put the number killed at 44 and said 21 others had been wounded in the attack on Mabouja.

ByReutersMarch 31, 2015

Islamic State fighters killed at least 37 people in a Syrian village near the city of Hama overnight, a group monitoring the war said, part of a pattern of attacks by the ultra-radical force in government-held areas of western Syria.